Pennsylvania brings protest votes to center stage
by NBC News
NBC News— Beneath the surface of Pennsylvania’s mostly sleepy, boring, low-turnout primary Tuesday was a trend that has stalked Joe Biden and Donald Trump across the country over the past month: a substantial protest vote. This time, though, the candidate who drew more attention for the protest he faced was not the current president but the former one. Trump got about 36,000 more protest votes than Biden, even though Biden faced an organized protest campaign from left-wing critics of his policy on Israel...
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TheHill—Sunday shows preview: College protests over war in Gaza take center stage. The rise of pro-Palestinian protests that have sprung up at college campuses across the nation will likely be the focus of this week’s Sunday news shows. The protests, focused on aversion to Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza and abating the humanitarian crisis in the region, have highlighted major divisions in American politics and drawn
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